Bed for sleeping-cars.



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CHARLES HERENDEEN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

BED FOR SLEEPING-CARS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 20, 1907.

Application filed March 6,1907. Serial No. 360,985.

To all whom 'L't may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES HERENDEEN, a citi- Zen of the'United States, residing in Chicago, Cook county, Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in the Construction of Beds for Sleeping-Coaches on Railroads, of which the following is a full and correct specification, reference being had to the hereto accompanying two sheets of drawings, forming a part hereof, and in which Figure l shows a fragment of such a coach-body showing one bed in elevation with the parts relating to my improvement shown in longitudinal vertical section; Fig. 2 shows a fragment of such a coach in plan view, a part of the bedding being shown removed whereby is exposed a part of my said improvement of such a bed; Fig. 3 shows a fragment of my special device, or element, in perspective, one corner of the covering of the support being removed to show the support; Fig. 4 shows a piece of my said improved bed-element in elevation.

The object of my invention is to provide means wherewith the heat-rays rising from the heatingmechanism, or steam-pipes under the lower berth of sleeping-cars may either be'cut off entirely or so reduced in intensity of action as to render such beds much cooler than has heretofore been possible to make them and thereby render said place much more comfortable as well as healthful.

It is a well known factthat the lower berths of sleeping-cars are, necessarily, so near the car-heating mechanism that thereby the occupants of such beds often suffer from an excess oi heat and, consequently, also suffer from loss of sleep, health, and comfort g which, but for said Idisadvantage, might be had to said undesirable conditions. I attain said desirable ends in substantially the following manner, namely; I make use of the great heat non-conducting properties of certain mineral substances, such as infusorial earth, mica, andiasbestos, and, preferably, the latter because of its well known and efficient property as a non-conductor of heat. As the said materials are all more or less fiiable and, therefore, in that respect,

difhcult to apply for my said purpose, I overcome said obstacle by providing a suitable support ior said substances which, preferably, is a wooden board of proper dimensions because wood itself, in part, is also a non-conductor of heat, and to it, in any suitable known way, I attach a layer or body of such mineral nen-conductor, applying the same to a thickness which will effectually answer my purpose, and at the same time be so light, small, and convenient as not to be materially obnoxious in its occupying space, or to any other objection. I make a set or series of such boards a and to them secure layer of asbestos b or other heat non-conducting mineral substance and thus form a heat non-conducting element c which I then lay on the bed-support d and on it place the bed made up in the usual way.

The lower berths of sleeping-cars are indicated by the parts a b c d and the heating-mechanism, as the steam-coil, or pipe is shown atf.

Practical experiment has demonstrated that a reduction in temperature of from iifteen to twenty degrees, Fahrenheit, in said beds, is actually attained by the use of my said device.

What I claim is:

The combination with a heatng-mcchanism` superimA posed by a hed, oi a mineral heat non-conducting element and a support therefor. interposed in any plane between the top el' the bed and the lop of said heatng-meclnlnism.

CHARLES HERENDEEN.

Witnesses 2 1. 1i. Eanmxe. WM. ZIMMERMAN. 

